Zahra’s Paradise a cri de coeur

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Jonathan Chait on OWS, or Can Liberalism Survive? by Almost Marx

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/10/should_liberals_like_occupy_wa.html

Why can't those unwashed hippies be more like us sane self-congratulating Liberals? Who can't stop characterizing Obama's policies as moderate when, in fact, they are moderately conservative, at best. See that lefty Paul Krugman's essays in the New York Times for some background. That is the agonizing dilemma of Mr. Chait, confronted with the Lost Generation, as they rebel against the failure of Liberalism to address their plight, their shattered hopes and desires for a future, that does not freely, passively accept a political fatalism. The bad news for all Neo-Liberals is that the Free Market failed to deliver the goods, as promised. It brought economic blight to millions, world wide, and a great many public intellectuals, like Mr. Chait, with the continual problem of covering up their bad judgement with rhetorical drivel like this essay.
 
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Books of Interest: The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond by Boris Groys Translated by Charles Rougle

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Books of Interest: Rome and Rhetoric Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar by Gary Wills

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Books of Interest: The Reactionary Mind, Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin by Corey Robin

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Books of Interest:American Neoconservatism: The Politics and Culture of a Reactionary Idealism by Jean-Francois Drolet

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Books of Interest: Quentin Meillassoux: Philosophy in the Making by Graham Harman

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Books of Interest: Hermeneutic Communism by Gianni Vattimo & Santiago Zabala

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Books of Interest:The Memory Wars by Frederick Crews published by New York Review Books

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I had read this book some years ago, but was recently reminded of it by two essays published in The New York Review of Books by Professor Crews, titled Physician Neal Thyself. I have provide a link to the Review’s site where this two part essay is avalable for purchase. Or simply go to your Public Library, where I found the Review and the back copies readily available.It will be worth your time and trouble.

http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/frederick-c-crews/

 

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Books Of Interest: The Self and It’s Emotions by Kristjan Kristjansson , Cambridge University Press

Just read about this book in the October 7, 2011 issue of the TLS, in an essay by Marya Schechtman titled Nature of me.

http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item2702902/?site_locale=en_US

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